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All the ideas for 'Reply to 'Rorarius' 2nd ed', 'Mr Strawson on Referring' and 'Completeness of Axioms of Logic'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 11. Ostensive Definition

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Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell]

4. Formal Logic / C. Predicate Calculus PC / 3. Completeness of PC

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Gödel proved the completeness of first order predicate logic in 1930 [Gödel, by Walicki]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

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Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

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Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz]